README.md

Telegram Imgur Bot

A Telegram bot which uploads images sent from you to Imgur and replies with direct links. Useful for sharing images, writing blogs, etc.

Screenshot

^{Image by Negative Space via Pexels (CC0 license)}

Prerequisites

• Go >= 1.11
• PostgreSQL >= 9.6, with images table created (see bot/db/README.md for SQL)
• A Telegram bot created from BotFather
• Imgur API client created following the guide at apidocs.imgur.com

Getting started

$ git clone https://github.com/beta/telegram-imgur-bot.git
$ go get ./...
$ DATABASE_URL="postgres://[USER]:[PASS]@[ADDR]:[PORT]/[DATABASE]" TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=[YOUR_BOT_TOKEN] IMGUR_CLIENT_ID=[YOUR_IMGUR_CLIENT_ID] go run cmd/bot/bot.go

Deploying to Heroku

Running with free dynos

Heroku shuts down free dynos after there is no traffic in a period. A web server is added (cmd/web/web.go) which supports wakemydyno.com. Register your Heroku app there if you want to prevent it from sleeping.

To-dos

• Support logging in to Imgur to upload with users' own accounts
• Support specifying which album to upload to
• Inline keyboard for deleting images from Imgur
• Generate Markdown and HTML snippets for uploaded images

Credits

• Telebot

License

MIT